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Ms Jiaqi (Jackie) Lun

Before becoming a teacher in HISD, Ms Jiaqi Lun was a management trainee of Maersk Sealand, an account manager of Anthem Worldwide and a print production manager of Procter & Gamble. Thanks to her business background, she has effective communication skills and extensive knowledge of doing business in China. 

 

ms Lun is experienced in curricumlum design and textbook writing. She wrote the Chinese II lesson exemplar for Houston ISD LOTE department, textbook of Travel Chinese class and Conversation Chinese class for CCC and textbook of Crash Chinese class for ASTC. 

 

Invited by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, Ms Lun gave two presentations “Building Sustainable Language Program through Community Partnership” and “Chinese-in-Action: Preparing the Youth to Engage with the World” in 2014 ACTFL conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Ms Lun is also a freelance translator/interpreter. She speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English fluently. She translated English to Cantonese for short film Fool’s Gold and taught famous Hollywood star James Hong Cantonese and Zak Tomic Mandarin.

 

With her strong work ethic, knowledge of instruction and keen communication skills, Ms Lun was nominated the Exemplary Teacher to Support Beginning Teachers as a KEY Teacher Leader in 2014 and awarded 2012-2013 Houston ISD Effective Teacher. She received 100% positive feedback in ASTC Crash Chinese end-of-course survey.

Her teaching philosophy: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.—Benjamin Franklin”

 


 

Resources & Support

Recommended websites and webpages:

 

Teach you how to pronounce pinyin slowly and clearly:

http://www.learnchineseabc.com/chinese-pinyin-initials.htm

http://www.learnchineseabc.com/chinese-pinyin-finals.htm

 

American Girl teaches Chinese Slangs in short and funny videos:

http://crazyfreshchinese.com/

or Subscribe "crazy fresh Chinese" on YouTube

 

How do Chinese people talk in real life--Authentic Mandarin videos:

http://mandarinhq.com

 

Everything you need to know about China in 10 minutes 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiuLLfpzfh0

 

Learn Taichi Fan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5RzZC0aB6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Zb_12u7-4

 

Learn a Chinese folk song "Molihua" (even Celine Dion sang it!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkl60mtdJ0

 

Learn a song " Sorry, my Chinese is not good"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTBwvi0h2E

 

 

Recommended smart device apps:

 

Pinyin related:

Pinyin chart, PinPin,Chinese Pinyin Trainer Lite

 

Vocabulary related: 

trainchinese, Quizlet, google translator

 

Input tool:

Sogou for android phone; choose Chinese keyboard if you are using iphone.

 

Communication tool: 

 wechat

 

Practice tool: 

 Du Chinese

 

 

 

 

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